ABB-posted 2 months ago
Full-time • Senior
Raleigh, NC
5,001-10,000 employees
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world. This Position reports to: Department Manager of Power Electronics. Your role and responsibilities: In this role, you will have the opportunity to initiate and drive technology, software, product, and/or solution development using in-depth technical expertise in a specific area. Each day, you will act as the first point of contact in Research and Development (R&D) for in-depth product or technology-related issues. You will also showcase your expertise by supporting strategic corporate technology management and future product/software/solution architecture. The work model for the role is: Onsite. This role is contributing to the US Corporate Research Center in Raleigh NC.

  • Lead research and R&D projects with multi-disciplinary teams
  • Scout new technologies, generate project proposals, and get buy-in from sponsors and potential receivers
  • Assess new technologies for a variety of applications (power supplies, grid connected converters, UPS, EV chargers, motor drives, and more)
  • Coordinate the generation of project proposals for third party funding
  • Develop technical requirements and create new designs
  • Supervise the design of electronic circuits and printed circuit boards
  • Supervise the development of firmware for low- and high-level functions of power converters
  • Coordinate and engage in relationship with key suppliers
  • Supervise the generation and testing of simulation models and hardware demonstrators
  • Supervise the prototyping of test assemblies, running experiments, and recording of test data
  • Supervise the analysis of test results and generation of documentation
  • Supervise and contribute to the preparing internal and external technical reports, presentations, and publications
  • Write invention disclosures and provide technical inputs for patent filings
  • Represent ABB in professional conferences, industry consortia, and other events
  • Contribute to strategic planning activities
  • Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in the field of Power Electronics with a minimum of 5 years of experience, or a master's degree in electrical engineering - Power Electronics with a minimum of 10 years of experience required
  • Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, work in international teams, and lead teams and manage projects
  • Experience with writing proposals and securing third party funding for research projects
  • Demonstrated skills in effective communication, presentation of results, and networking
  • Experience with designing and prototyping of electrical circuits, working with PCB manufacturers and machine shops for manufacturing of prototypes
  • Experience with using lab equipment, such as oscilloscopes, probes, meters, power supplies, and another basic lab equipment
  • Experience with writing firmware code for DSPs, MCUs, and FPGAs (C, C++, Verilog)
  • Experience with PCB design
  • Ability to travel - up to 15% travel
  • Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US
  • Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan
  • Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
  • Vision benefit
  • Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
  • Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
  • Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
  • Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
  • Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to 'buy-up' to 66 2/3% of pay
  • Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
  • Parental Leave - up to 6 weeks
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
  • Employee discount program
  • 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
  • Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
  • ABB provides 11 paid holidays
  • Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy
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